Silver is silver, it is a natural currency, Zhu Yijun did not understand the topic, but he was more interested in the study of Wang Guoguang and Wang Daokun, the current scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty are highly overlapping, especially in politics and economics, because the content of their summary is not based on fantasy, but the summary of experience combined with practice.

Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to their research.

The emperor did not use his privilege to inquire, but quietly waited for them to study and understand, and then wrote a note and played it to him.

Wang Daokun is a member of the Zhejiang Party, who was rehabilitated by Hu Zongxian at the beginning, and Wang Daokun was among the people who ran, and Wang Guoguang was a traitor to the Jin Party, and Wang Chonggu's first thought when he left was to hand over the leader of the Jin Party to him.

Whether it is from personal intelligence or status, the two of them are working together, and what they are tossing and turning will be known after a little thought, and it is by no means simple.

Chen Chengyi had a dinner in Tonghe Palace, mainly because His Majesty asked a lot of questions, Chen Chengyi answered carefully, and Zhu Yijun gained a lot.

This chat came to dinner time, Zhu Yijun simply left Chen Chengyi for dinner, and Xiao En Xiaohui bought people's hearts.

The craftsmen led by Chen Chengyi will deliver 12 million catties of red copper for Daming this year, plus 6.5 million catties of Yunnan copper, this year Daming can cast Wanli Tongbao up to 1.3 billion, and if the fire consumption is less, it may even mint 1.4 billion coins.

Zhu Yijun, as the emperor, cares Chen Chengyi for a meal, which is supposed and a holy family.

Wanli Tongbao has two money, five money, four money, eight money, nine money and other regulations, of which two money is the most, under the two money, but also tried to produce a kind of small flat, about only one money, belonging to the Ministry of Industry Baoyuan Bureau of the coinage bureau has presented this kind of small flat money, probably the same as the private cast of flying money on the market, this kind of money is too easy to damage, so it was finally set as two money.

The Wanli Tongbao weighing two coins is about equal to five baht, one catty sixteen taels, one tael twenty-four baht, and one tael is also ten coins.

Zhu Yijun inquired about Nanyang affairs.

The conflict between the Ming Governor's Mansion and the Goa Governor's Palace, the Goa Governor's Mansion has been operating in the Strait of Malacca for 60 years, but wherever it is dangerous, there are Hongmaofan's camps and forts, which are hard bones that can only be gnawed a little bit; More than 150 settlements have been established in the Yuanxu Islands in the South Seas, which are gradually evolving into plantations; The Spanish colonizers in Mindanao were very honest, and they tried to retake Cebu in the past, but now they are too lazy to move.

If you can't beat it, it's better to do some business.

In short, under the development of Yin Zhengmao, Nanyang is gradually becoming the back garden of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Chengyi said goodbye to His Majesty and left Tonghe Palace, during this time in Beijing, Chen Chengyi can be regarded as having a good understanding of His Majesty, not like the rumored tyrant who kills people without blinking, but is quite kind, and laughs brightly, I don't know why it is rumored that His Majesty is killing people when he sleeps, this kind of strange talk is not believable.

Wang Daokun and Wang Guoguang came to the Quanchu Hall again and found the Ming Taifu Yuanfu, because there was a book, they wanted to show Zhang Juzheng first, and then play the words, Zhang Juzheng waved his hand again and again, signaling the two not to do this! There is no injustice and no hatred, why do you want to harm him Zhang Juzheng to such a point?

Because the last person who did this was named Hu Weiyong.

Wang Daokun and Wang Guoguang immediately went to invite Wan Shihe, and Zhang Juzheng let a few Ming dukes enter the door.

Wan Shihe is a hardcore imperial party, Wan Shihe joined, the problem of discussion, is not to avoid His Majesty's discussion, when the idea is immature, it is extremely hasty to easily play to His Majesty, but His Majesty does not know what they are talking about, and it is also very dangerous, after joining Wan Shihe and this panacea, everything is not a problem.

Zhu Yijun stressed more than once that the DPRK and China need such a panacea-like figure.

"What do you want to talk about, the official household ceremony, the four books are here." Wan Shihe took a sip of tea, he was studying Xu Jiugao's navigation notes, which were used to compile the "Overseas Fanguo Chronicles", when he was suddenly called to the Quanchu Guild Hall, and asked curiously.

"It's nothing, it's just what silver is." Wang Daokun said with a serious face: "What is silver?" Daming poor silver, Daming silver mountain adds up to only 100,000 taels a year, silver is an overseas inflow, Daming silver, is the specific embodiment of the work of the people of Daming, more clearly said, silver, is the hard-earned money of the people of Daming who work diligently. ”

Wang Daokun has been studying the problem of what silver is in the past seven months in Beijing, and the silver production of Daming is very low, so the silver flows into Daming, and he went to Songjiang Mansion and operated Songjiang Mansion as the first port of Daming, and a steady stream of goods in exchange for silver inflow.

These goods are inextricably linked to all people in Daming.

The women and children who raise silkworms on silk, the traders who walk the streets and alleys to collect silk, the weavers who process the silkworm cocoons into raw silk, the weavers of the weaving bureau weave them into silk and satin, the dyeing craftsmen, the laborers who carry the goods, the potters in the porcelain kilns, the shipyard boatmen, the people who cut wood, the long industrial chain on tung oil, etc., all the goods are closely related to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Daokun has been in Songjiang Mansion for nine years, and has witnessed countless industries in Songjiang Mansion from scratch, witnessed the birth of goods, and the sails of Xingang Port covering the sky and the sun are the miracles of Daming sea trade.

The hard work of the people of the Ming Dynasty has created a miracle of maritime trade.

And the inflow of silver is the embodiment of labor.

"Da Sikong has a point." Wan Shihe was silent for a moment, and always felt that Wang Daokun's words might lead to a bloody storm!

"What does Motosuke think?" Wang Daokun asked Zhang Juzheng's opinion, and he quarreled with Wang Guoguang countless times, and finally determined the fact that the essence of the silver flowing into Daming was the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng took a sip of tea, he didn't answer immediately, because he knew that his statement would directly affect the direction of the court, between the lightning and flint, Zhang Juzheng was full of thoughts, he looked at Wang Daokun, and then looked at Wang Guoguang, waved his hand and said: "Don't say it, don't say it." ”

"Sir!" Wang Daokun stood up suddenly, he imagined countless possibilities, but the only thing he didn't expect was that Zhang Juzheng was pretending to be a confused master!

Zhang Juzheng, it's really disappointing!

Wang Guoguang pulled Wang Daokun's clothes and persuaded: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, Yuanfu is the first assistant of the country, he must focus on the overall situation, this is not a trivial matter, you have such a characterization, many things have to be changed, and Yuanfu also has Yuanfu's difficulties." ”

Zhang Juzheng is the imperial Taifu Yuanfu, his status determines that he can't easily express his position, his statement will affect the future direction of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng actually knows that Wang Daokun is right, silver is the hard-earned money of the people.

He had been writing the second volume of The Theory of Classes, the distributive volume.

He can't write, it's not that he hasn't figured it out, it's that he doesn't know what kind of impact it will have when he writes it, so he hasn't started writing for a long time, he is not a science and Taoist official who chatters endlessly, understands or doesn't understand, he is the first assistant with some decision-making power.

As soon as Wang Daokun's words came out, even the emperor beat them together, and every real money and silver used by the emperor was people's fat and people's ointment.

And as soon as this sentence came out, why did the hereditary official class, martial arts, and clan relatives be hereditary?

The meaning of these words is equivalent to the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning.

It is confirmed, after Tan Lun leaves, the biggest radical faction in the Ming Dynasty is Wang Daokun!

Is this Zhejiang Party planning to be radical from beginning to end?

"Specific questions, specific discussions." Zhang Juzheng thought about it for a while and decided to set a limit for Wang Daokun, the issue of silver can be discussed, but His Majesty cannot be put into it.

Wang Daokun frowned, he didn't know what range this was in, it wasn't that he was stupid, but that he had been stuck in this problem for a long time, and suddenly figured it out, the whole person was extremely excited, and he didn't think about the terrible power of this sentence.

Wang Guoguang looked at Wan Shihe, and Wang Daokun immediately understood, he already knew what the specific range was.

Do not rise to the king's affairs in the affairs of your subjects!

The Ming Dynasty opposed the opening of the sea are conservatives, the most hated by conservatives is change, conservatives have always been to royalist as an advocacy, this large amount of silver inflow, people's hearts moved, humanistic thought, financial affairs, political system speculation, a little careless, will affect the imperial power.

Wang Daokun was stuck, and he was speechless for a while, because what he was going to say next would definitely involve topics that could not be touched.

"What Da Sikong thinks is that the hard-earned money of the people of Daming is being wasted." Wang Guoguang broke through what Wang Daokun wanted to say specifically, Your Majesty is still frugal, and for so many years, it has been known to the whole world, so discussing waste will not affect Your Majesty, and it is a safe topic.

"That's right! Waste! Wang Daokun's eyes lit up, specific to this range, it will never involve His Majesty in Tsing Yi!

The experienced Da Situ still knows the art of speaking.

No one can accuse the Ming Emperor of extravagance, because His Majesty wears Tsing Yi, which emperor wears Tsing Yi.

"The silver of the Ming Dynasty is the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and these hard-earned money is being wasted, and the waste is mainly concentrated in three aspects, the first is the obstruction and idling, the second is repeated sinking, and the third is the loss of overseas." Wang Daokun opened the conversation.

The idling of the dam has been discussed many times, and Wang Daokun did not elaborate further, probably because money always flows to places where there is no shortage of money.

Repetition is that the handicraft workshop of the Ming Dynasty is always doing repeated things, obviously the family has completely conquered or accidentally found a way to improve productivity, but it is to use it behind closed doors, and it is taboo for others to inquire a little, and there is a lack of a mechanism to reduce repeated investment.

And the sinking is a very heart-wrenching thing for Wang Daokun, the Ming handicraft workshop was invested, but the operation was not effective, and finally it was vacant, and the huge investment was put on hold, as if the fertile land was not cultivated, and a large amount of silver was buried in the pigsty!

The loss of overseas is a new contradiction after the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty covers the luxury of the people who are afraid of the majesty of the imperial court, oppose the interference of the imperial court, and bring the hard-earned money of the Ming Dynasty out of overseas, and the development of the Yuanxu Islands is vigorous, there is a reason for this, the silver of the Ming Dynasty is losing and fleeing.

"If you're going to say wasteful, it's okay to talk about it." Zhang Juzheng was relieved, his feelings were not going to the emperor, so he could talk about it.

"In the ninth year of the governor of Songjiang, watching the sunset today, Da Sikong is no longer what he was back then, and what Da Sikong was best at back then was to write some miscellaneous dramas." Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Daokun with emotion, this guy was the best at writing miscellaneous songs, he was an opera artist, he had worked in Songjiang Mansion for many years, time has passed, and now he has become a radical among radicals.

On the issue of silver, Wang Daokun thought very well.

The phenomenon, the problems behind the phenomena, and the causes of the problems are all talked about by Wang Daokun, but at this point, he is still idle talk, and Wang Daokun must come up with concrete and feasible methods, at least a clear program.

"So how should this problem of silver waste be solved?" Zhang Juzheng asked curiously, he had some ideas, but he was immature.

Wang Daokun stood up, blushing and said loudly: "The best way is to multiply assets!" As long as the silver of the current assets can be fixed as the fixed assets of the Ming Dynasty, the overseas plantations, the Tong Gardens in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the reclamation of wasteland, handicraft workshops, family houses, large workshops, official factories and regiments, and even the training of boatmen and craftsmen can be regarded as multiplying the assets of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"As long as the fixed assets are multiplied, there is no waste!"

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and began to understand Wang Daokun's words, in fact, let the cheap Confucian and the prisoners of Guozijian listen to it, and they all heard what Wang Daokun was talking about, and Zhang Juzheng could understand.

Overseas plantations are overseas, can they be regarded as fixed assets of the Ming Dynasty? Indeed, because the output of these plantations cannot be digested by overseas countries, and will eventually feed back to Daming, and overseas plantations are also part of Daming's fixed assets.

Can boatmen and craftsmen also be regarded as fixed assets? To fully understand this, we must be proficient in the "Production Diagram", the production diagram divides the assets into retention, flow and fixation, and a person's experience is also fixed assets, especially a large number of educated talents, is the precious fixed assets of the Ming Dynasty, and the boat master is also part of the fixed assets of the Ming Dynasty.

Is there a correlation between asset proliferation and silver waste? The connection is very close, and the speed of asset multiplication is almost the same as the speed of silver inflow, so that silver can flow smoothly and play the role of a department store.

"Felipe II knows the talent of the Great Sikong, and I am afraid that he will be desperate to snatch the Great Sikong back to Tessie to be the Minister of State." Zhang Juzheng said sincerely.

Wang Daokun sat down and said: "Ah, this, in fact, is a fool's thousand thoughts, there must be one to get, Yuan Fu praised it." ”

The multiplication of assets has become a typical example of the use of administrative power to interfere in the market, and the value-added of these fixed assets can be quantified, and then the assessment is carried out, the overall fixed asset multiplication rate of the Ming Dynasty must reach at least seventy percent of the silver inflow, which is considered efficient, and even does not need to pay too much administrative investment, only needs to export various commercial goods from the sea trade, you can make a rough inference.

Zhang Juzheng's mind has already turned over the river, and countless policies have already taken shape.

Zhang Juzheng was stunned to find that he was originally implementing the New Deal to solve the problem, but one problem was solved, and two popped up! He thought that he was busy with the major events of taking the test to become a law, returning the land to the field, rectifying the study and politics, and revitalizing the military and strengthening the army, and he should enjoy the changes brought by the new deal to the Ming Dynasty.

This... When will it be busy? While it feels good to be busy, it's too fulfilling.

"I have a few immature ideas, such as if this silver is lost overseas, can we levy profits tax on it? When he took the silver out, he had to pay 50% of his assets in Daming at one time, and after leaving Daming, he should increase his tariff to at least 20% according to the tax increase. Wang Daokun said tentatively.

Profits tax is designed not only to ensure tax fairness and prevent tax loss caused by wealth transfer, but also to facilitate tax inspection by tax inspectors and prevent tax evasion.

As soon as the radicals made a move, it was a killer move, when there was no sea, Daming did not need to face this problem, but after the opening of the sea, this problem was particularly important, the people of Daming worked hard to earn, and the silver inflow was lost in vain, and the loss was Daming!

Finding a way to fix the silver of liquid assets is Wang Daokun's main purpose.

"How?" Zhang Juzheng thought about it for a while and felt that it was extremely difficult to implement.

Da Situ Guoguang immediately said: "It's very simple, you only need to get stuck in gold, silver and copper to go to sea, it's okay, the luxury households really want to escape, they must turn all the assets in their hands into silver, and then leave with silver, land, houses, and workshops can't be taken away, so it's called profit tax, and it's an additional tax on silver going to sea." ”

Luxury buyers only need to exchange their assets for silver, and then they can swagger away, how can there be such a good thing? In the past, it could not be transferred because there was no silver inflow, but now that there is an abundance of general equivalents, this will inevitably arise.

Zhang Juzheng nodded, I have to say that the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household got together, and these two scholars got together and came up with a good way.

If the silver flows out of the country, the assets will be stuck.

"Why did they leave, the Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, and they went overseas with silver, so it's not a waste of money?" Wan Shihe frowned, feeling that Wang Daokun was alarmist, and he was not stupid to cover up the extravagance, looking at the whole earth, Daming was the most prosperous one, and he couldn't go abroad to bare his teeth at the gorilla? Overseas is a wild place.

Wang Daokun is questioning the gold content of the Celestial Empire.

"The relocation of the land is the nature of the people; Flesh and blood are attached, and people are willing to do it. Wan Shihe explained his doubts, he felt that Wang Daokun was a bit of a void target, where did the current Ming Dynasty come from this kind of problem, how could there be such a problem under the culture of relocation.

These luxury households are not good at covering luxury households, and aren't they just being homeless people when they go overseas? The people can't live anymore, so they become homeless, what kind of brains are these luxury coverers, so they do this.

Logically doesn't make sense.

To be more precise, Wan Shi and this Ministry of Rites do not believe it.

"Yes, flesh and blood are attached, and people want it." Wang Daokun said with emotion: "If I hadn't seen this strange situation with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it, do you know why the luxury households want to flee?" They felt that Da Ming had no freedom. ”

"Freedom?" Wan Shihe and his face were full of '? ’。

This reason made Wan Shihe, who had studied the past and the present, stunned, and the books he boasted of reading were not 10,000 but 100,000 volumes, this reason, Wan Shihe was really puzzled.

Wang Daokun said with mixed tastes: "Yes, freedom, they feel that the imperial court is lenient, there was no way in the past, and now they will run overseas if they have the opportunity, they would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, they would rather be powerful overseas than be constrained by the imperial court, in their cognition, the luxury household is just a pig to be slaughtered, as long as the court fattens the pig, the court will kill the pig, and the court will kill the pig when it is short of money." ”

"Yin Zhengmao demolished the door and moved the bed, and even brought the door to Luzon to make the gate of the Governor's Palace, Ling Yunyi simply killed people, refused to pledge and refused to give up his wealth, and the head was rolling, Zhang Siwei, Yanzhou Confucius Mansion, Xindu Yang's family, Nanya Qingzhang returned to the field, and the tax institute..."

Wang Daokun simply gave a few examples, standing in the position of covering luxury households, that is, the Ming court is harshly criticizing the wang family, and even the Confucian Mansion has fallen, it is strange that they can have a sense of security, they always feel that the back of their necks is cold, and they dream of a sword hanging on the top, and they will die at any time.

"They don't violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the court has nothing to do to stare at them?" Wan Shihe spread his hands.

Wang Daokun said with a smile: "You let them obey the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is more uncomfortable than killing them." ”

"This profits tax, good." Zhang Juzheng said quite agreeably: "It's very good, but there is a sparse performance, and I can play it jointly." ”

The joint play, the one who was scolded was Zhang Juzheng, there are more lice and it is not itchy, compared to a few words of infamy, the waste of silver is the problem that needs to be solved urgently.

There is no doubt that the essence of silver is the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty, because all the goods are created by the people with their hands; A large inflow of silver idled, sank repeatedly, and was lost overseas in the dam, so that the inflow of silver did not play its function as currency; In the face of this problem, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households gave the solution of asset multiplication and restricted the outflow of silver.

Just as Zhai Luan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the cabinet, cleared and revitalized the Beijing camp, Zhai Luan provided the problems, problems, causes, and practical solutions, but he couldn't do it, and it was noisy and noisy for many years, and there was no result in the end.

Zhang Juzheng's personal prestige and the institutional construction of his new policy can ensure the smooth flow of government decrees and the restoration of the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty, which is the basis of all new policies.

Zhang Juzheng has communicated with Wang Daokun and Wang Guoguang for a long, long time, mainly from six aspects to strengthen the circulation of silver.

Profits tax is just one of them.

Second: coinage, face value, weight of one tael of Ming silver coins, to expand in Beijing, the current Ming Dynasty a year of embossing silver coins only 400,000 silver, this number in five years, into a million silver, in ten years, increase to the point of the same amount as the inflow of silver, in order to initially make silver into the real currency; Wanli Tongbao must reach 5 billion pieces within five years, and more than 8 billion pieces within 10 years before it can completely puncture the dam.

The Ministry of Industry has the Baoyuan Bureau, the Ministry of Household has the Treasure Banknote Bureau, which is the place where the Ming Dynasty minted Wanli Tongbao and printed the treasure banknotes, and this time the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households joined forces, accompanied by the Military Bureau under the Internal Department, to die cast silver.

Third: the Ministry of Commerce, the system construction of the Ministry of Commerce, the establishment of a three-level business management organization between the commercial bank, the business gang, and the businessman, improve the management function, and even the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce if necessary, the six departments become seven departments, specializing in business management, with the influx of a large amount of silver, the imperial court has deeply felt the power of money, then this force must not get out of control, on business, administrative management.

Excessive administration will lose its vitality, but without any administration, it will degenerate into the slave era, the Central Plains has changed from slaves, feudalism (feudal statehood) to the county system, the necessary administrative management, so that the forces between all social strata and collectives will not lose coordination.

Fourth: the school, the craftsman school and the boat master school must be expanded, which needs to be based on the official factory group to achieve, the cultivation of talents is a necessary step for the multiplication of fixed assets in the Ming Dynasty, the ability of the main body to change nature is the definition of productivity, out of the people-oriented program, it will be lost in the world.

Jinzhou, Tianjin, Mizhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and other nine places with close exchanges between merchants, relying on the city of shipping to establish a maritime school, has become a five-year plan.

Fifth: circulation, the civil has appeared in the letter bureau, based on the Kowloon post road leading to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the post station, to carry out official acceptance and exchange, which is to increase the circulation of commerce, but also to increase the conversion of silver to silver coins, the problem to solve is that the Ming Dynasty covers the problem of the luxury households burying the silver in the pigsty, silver buried in the pigsty, but also the hard-earned money of the Ming people, in the hands of a few people idle typical characteristics.

Silver as a currency has its own limitations, whether it is large trade, or small transactions, there are many limitations, such as the Ming silver ingot counterfeiting technology can be described as superb, which makes the bulk trade fall into the dilemma of inspection, and small transactions need to cut silver, the unit of silver is the most convenient to account for transactions in two units, small transactions because of the long-term absence of Daming Tongbao, resulting in silver precipitation is also part of the waste.

Sixth: open technology, relying on Huangzhuang, pricing technology, so that technology from intangible assets, to buy and trade assets, anyone needs to buy technology in Huangzhuang, before it can be applied, and part of the harvest of Huangzhuang, need to be part of the dividends to the individual or collective of technological breakthroughs, which is a real encouragement of private workshop investment, while reducing internal friction.

"In fact, I think that at the moment, it is better to buy out the technology directly from Huangzhuang and then sell it." Wan Shihe had been listening, but when it came to his area of expertise, he offered his opinion.

Although His Majesty is stingy, he has never forcibly occupied any technology, whether it is Wang Chonggu's "Records of the Woolen Official Factory", or all the achievements of Zhu Zaiyu of the Royal Gewu Academy, who should be who's, even the contradiction said, there is Zhang Juzheng's signature.

Individuals have no ability to resist in the face of the arrogant encroachment of luxury households, and it is better to pretend to be the imperial power.

"That's a good idea!" Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and it still depends on the imperial party to donate this kind of thing, and others are not opponents.

There will be one more hegemony in His Majesty's imperial power, that is, technological hegemony, even if the Ming royal family is unfilial in the future, this technological hegemony is enough to eat and drink.

"Will Wang Cifu object?" Wang Daokun said with some concern.

Zhang Juzheng said with great certainty: "No, Wang Chonggu has been busy beating his son recently." ”

Wang Chonggu beat his son, and he was idle when he was idle, and this little thing about the old Wang family has become a joke in Beijing, and everyone knows it.

(End of chapter)